Great. Beer. Iím not one for fruity ales, but this one pours a beautiful deep ruby-red/mahogany, and tastes even better. Subtle but encaptivating hints of blackberry poke through a strong malty sweetness. Good for a bottle or two for sure.

650 ml bottle. Pours a clear dark brown with a large head. Aromas were ripe blueberry/blackberry sweetness with a touch of tart citrus. Taste was reflective of smell but was more tart blueberry/blackberry rather than sweet. There was also a hint of alcohol. Mouthfeel was relatively thin, moderate carbonation, medium bitter finish. A unique beer, would consider it again.

650ml bottle pours a dark browish red color with a 2 finger off-white head that leaves some spotted lacing on the glass. Aroma is mild berries with some chocolate and mild hops. Taste is a berry and choclate malty sweetness with a mild hop bitterness. Medium bodied with some mild carbonation. This is a quite well done fruity porter and highly recommended.

The first sip makes you realize that this has no characteristics to a porter at all, seems just like a malty fruit beer. Not overly great to tell you the truth, the roasty blackberries and the sickly sweetness of this just donít make a great combo. Seems to linger forever as well, not enjoyable.

Seriously, the LCBO de-lists Dogfish 60 Minute IPA and have the balls to bring this in?? What a bunch of......

650ml bottle from the LCBO in Peterborough, Ontario.
Opened on September 30, 2010.
No date.

Someoneís already said this smells like Blackberry Nutrigrain bars... well, Iíll go one step further and say it looks and tastes like that, too.
Alcohol is strong on the palate, at first this factor didnít seem well balanced, but as I went through the bottle it seemed to work more and more... Iím not against hot alcohol flavours as they can contribute as a flavour in, say, a barley wine. But here they seemed to take away from the beerís fullness, at least at the beginning.
Itís nice to see a brewery taking risks, and I gave a few more points for this. Hey Belgiumís got Kriek and Framboise lambics; why canít the BC interior have blackberry porters? Exciting times, for sure, and Iím glad to have given this beer my first rating (after having tried hundreds of beers in my life).

UPDATED: MAR 24, 2013 Definitely my favorite beer of the Victoria BCís Great Canadian beer festival This past Aug 2011. Pours very nice, and has a great head which clings and hangs around. The aroma has the perception of roasted black malts with a good sweet blueberry. The taste follows the same. Great balance of sweet and bitterness. Just the right amount of blueberry flavor. My fridge sees this bottle as often as possible.

(Bottle) Pours dark brown to black with a pale brown head. The aroma holds boatloads of ripe fresh blackberries. Mild roast and toast from the malt. The flavour is light sweet, light to medium bitter and light acidic. Coffee and asphalt-like roast alongside blackberries. Citric hoppy finish. The mouthfeel is clean and soft with a medium carbonation. The roast and berries plays well together. Near medium bodied.

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